Garen with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Garen and Blitzcrank
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Garen Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Garen with Blitzcrank
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Advice to Understand How Blitzcrank Will Play
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Garen Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Garen in LoL
The Garen Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Garen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Blitzcrank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Blitzcrank helps Garen perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is an ally to Blitzcrank, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Blitzcrank helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Blitzcrank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Blitzcrank.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Blitzcrank on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Blitzcrank does a decent job of protecting Garen during team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Blitzcrank
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Is Garen better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Garen that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Blitzcrank is a decent ally for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, he raises their win rate by 1.8% to 50.5%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Garen and Blitzcrank that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Blitzcrank has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Blitzcrank comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Garen and Blitzcrank together, you will not be giving your side a lot of AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Blitzcrank ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to work well with Blitzcrank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Garen and Blitzcrank synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Garen used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Blitzcrank than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when playing alongside Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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